Good morning Year 2

Raglan Primary School has an excellent ICT room with a computer for each child. It also has a controller pc from which you can operate the other computers when necessary.

The pupils had already looked at the Inspiration Africa! website on their introduction day and now they were able to see their own introduction day pages and read the comments they had sent via the site on that day.

Year 2 also had a session in the computer room on the afternoon of their visit to the Horniman Museum to see the African Worlds exhibition and so a simple form was set up on the website for the pupils to complete.

This was entitled What did you like?

"I really liked looking at the mummy. I also really liked the dancing and singing we did last week"

"I liked the plate mask! I enjoyed drawing the mask and colouring it in. It was very great and exciting and I drew a plank mask in a rainbow"

"I liked the wild plank mask"

One of the songs that Sola had taught the children (see story-telling page) was also put on the website for the children to learn inbetween project days - take this link to the Fulani Song.

"Today we listend to the Fulani song through the school computer, everybody started to sing the song! Me and my Mum like the website very much"

"We listened to the singing on headphones, all being played from the one PC shared around the room. The children just spontaneously started singing along. It was really lovely seeing 30 children all singing along and so obviously enjoying it. It made my afternoon"
from parent providing ICT support in the suite (thankyou from Inspiration Africa! team).

During the project work was linked from the artwork sessions and literacy sessions. Pupils used the Paint programme to colour in symbols produced on the first artwork day, these were saved as gifs and then tiled across their individual webpages.

Above, pupils coloured in their shapes in Paint and saved as GIF images. They took it in turns to look at each others tiled webpages and read the poems

The BACKGROUND tag on a webpage produces a repeat pattern of the gif. The finished webpages would also display their finished poems. Pupils decided the colours they would like to use.

The whole process was explained by way of a webpage - follow this link to read the lesson and see the process.

THE FINISHED WEBPAGES

Take this link to see the finished webpages with poems.